Published3 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Max MatzaBBC NewsUS health officials say that eyedrops may have killed one person and severely injured several others due to drug-resistant bacterial contamination.... More »
Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, has joined Donald Trump in voicing skepticism about U.S. assistance to Ukraine in its war with Russia.Photograph by Scott Olson / GettyLetter from Biden’s WashingtonThe G.O.P. and the Ghosts of IraqThis week has seemed like ... More »
The world is facing an imminent water crisis, with demand expected to outstrip the supply of fresh water by 40% by the end of this decade, experts have said on the eve of a crucial UN water summit.Governments must urgently stop subsidising the extraction and o... More »
Reports that the Biden administration is threatening to ban TikTok, the most downloaded and one of the most heavily used apps in the country, caused users to erupt in suspicion and indignation Thursday.Some called it a violation of the 1st Amendment. Others cl... More »
There are two different narratives running through the Republican Party right now. The first is the Trumpian populist narrative we’re all familiar with: American carnage … the elites have betrayed us … the left is destroying us … I am your retribution.On the o... More »
Even though we can see a glowing object far in the distance, the human eye has its limitations, especially when it comes to visual acuity, the scientific-medical term for sharpness of vision. The cone cells — photoreceptors that are sensiti... More »
Even when it leads to heartbreak.Twenty stuffed animals lay ominously shoulder-to-shoulder on their bellies in a perfect circle on the floor. My 11-year-old daughter, Mary, sat in the middle, as though performing some esoteric ritual.I was used to such tableau... More »
His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.Lewis Spratlan won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for a chunk of an opera that he had completed in 1978 and that no one had ever staged.The... More »
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Since 2018, maternal mortality rates in the US have been on the rise, particularly during the pandemic and especially among Black people, and now new data released this week reinforces the alarming and mostly preventable trend. In 2021, there were 1,205 deaths... More »
The company is the third of the three major insulin manufacturers that dominate the U.S. market to announce such a move this month.Facing pressure to follow a wave of industry price cuts, the drug maker Sanofi said on Thursday that it would reduce the sticker ... More »
Editor’s note: This is a translation of a story about how the crime-tracking app Citizen has been giving away free subscriptions to elderly Asians in the Bay Area. Find the English language version here. 本文是与普利策中心的人工智能问责网络合作撰写的。 当外面天黑的时候，约瑟芬·赵（Josephine Zhao）... More »